Old growth forest in the Tongass National Forest, the planet’s largest intact temperate rainforest. The Tongass currently contains contains 9.2 million roadless acres, but the Trump administration's ...

Oregon’s congressional Democrats are asking federal officials to give the public more time to learn about and comment on new plans that would open up millions of acres of federal forests in Oregon to ...

People are grappling with the agency’s notice that signals a significant increase in timber harvesting across 2.5 million acres. Nick Hazelton, a 27-year-old yak farmer from Polk County in northwest ...

An Oregon Army National Guard helicopter safely hoisted an injured logger from a remote national forest after steep, rugged terrain prevented other means of rescue, fire department officials said. In ...

On the morning of Feb. 27, 2026, a crowd gathered at Cronemiller Lake in Peavy Arboretum near Corvallis to watch students from four universities scamper up an elevated pole of wood and saw the end off ...

For the third consecutive legislative session, a group of Oregon county governments hope to pass a bill requiring more predictable timber harvests in state forests. Similarly to past proposals, House ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An injured logger was successfully rescued from the Alsea Falls Recreation Area in Oregon Friday morning, authorities said. The accident was reported just after 11:30 a.m., ...

Forest fog over the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southeastern Oregon. (U.S. Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Region/Flickr via Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — In a win for conservation ...

Environmental crime has surged into a multibillion-dollar global industry, ranking just behind narcotics, weapons trafficking, and human smuggling in criminal profitability. According to the United ...

Reforms to Australia’s nature laws have passed federal parliament. A longstanding exemption that meant federal environment laws did not apply to native logging has finally been removed from the ...

Two people died at logging sites in and around Lane County the week of Nov. 9, according to the Lane County Sheriff's Office. The first fatal logging accident occurred Nov. 10 at 10 a.m., according to ...

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